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Is relieve a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word relieve is a Scrabble US word. The word relieve is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

R1E1L1I1E1V4E1

Is relieve a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word relieve is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

R1E1L1I1E1V4E1

Is relieve a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word relieve is a Words With Friends word. The word relieve is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

R1E1L2I1E1V5E1

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7-letter words (1 found)

RELIEVE,

6-letter words (8 found)

EELIER,EVILER,LEVIER,LIEVER,RELEVE,RELIVE,REVILE,VEILER,

5-letter words (16 found)

EERIE,ELVER,ERVIL,LEVEE,LEVER,LIEVE,LIVER,LIVRE,REEVE,REIVE,RELIE,REVEL,REVIE,RIEVE,RIVEL,VILER,

4-letter words (23 found)

EREV,EVER,EVIL,LEER,LEIR,LERE,LEVE,LIER,LIRE,LIVE,REEL,RIEL,RILE,RIVE,VEER,VEIL,VELE,VIER,VILE,VIRE,VIRL,VLEI,VRIL,

3-letter words (13 found)

EEL,ERE,EVE,IRE,LEE,LEI,LEV,LIE,REE,REI,REV,VEE,VIE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,EL,ER,LI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 67 words from relieve according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of relieve

relieve

Etymology

From Old French relever, specifically from the conjugated forms such as (jeo) relieve (“I lift up”), and its source, Latin relevo (“to lift up, lighten, relieve, alleviate”), combined form of re- (“back”) + levo (“to lift”). Doublet of relevate. Compare levant, levity, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈliːv/
  • Rhymes: -iːv

Verb

relieve (third-person singular simple present relieves, present participle relieving, simple past and past participle relieved)

  1. (transitive) To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of. [from 14th c.]
  2. (transitive) To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort. [from 14th c.]
    Synonym: liss
  3. (transitive) To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.). [from 14th c.]
  4. (transitive) To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty). [from 14th c.]
  5. (obsolete) To lift up; to raise again. [15th–17th c.]
  6. (now rare) To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.). [from 15th c.]
  7. (law) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to. [from 15th c.]
  8. (transitive) To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on. [from 16th c.]
  9. To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc. [from 16th c.]
  10. (originally military) To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place. [from 16th c.]
  11. (now rare) To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief. [from 18th c.]
  12. (reflexive, euphemistic) To urinate or defecate. [from 20th c.]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:defecate, Thesaurus:urinate
    • 1989, Snyder v. Harmon, 562 A.2d 307 (Pa. 1989) (Zappala, J., writing for the majority), Pennsylvania Supreme Court
      As they traveled along L.R. 33060, one of the passengers mentioned he had to relieve himself, so Barrett stopped the car along the berm of the road, which, unbeknown to the travelers, was directly adjacent to a strip mine.
  13. (reflexive, euphemistic) To ease one's own desire to orgasm, often through masturbation to orgasm.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:masturbate

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Further reading

  • “relieve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “relieve”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /reˈljebe/ [reˈlje.β̞e]
  • Rhymes: -ebe
  • Syllabification: re‧lie‧ve

Noun

relieve m (plural relieves)

  1. relief (protrusion)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “relieve”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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